NME Festival blog: Jack White at Mad Cool: a honky-tonk ‘Hotel Yorba’, and a true great on the fieriest of form

This might be the most divisive incarnation of Jack White yet: bathed in blue light, playing a set heavy on tracks from his latest (and third) solo album, ‘Boarding House Reach’, which – although NME loved – received a mixed reception from fans and critics. A headliner in a non-headliner set at Madrid’s toploaded Mad Cool festival (Arctic Monkeys are yet to play tonight), White’s wings have been clipped somewhat this…